A review of recent depositional processes on the Mississippi fan, eastern Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota: Volume III, Geology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 141-154

  Twichell, David C ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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